On further examination, it seems that the Alt key does work, at
least in some places. (Pardon me for a moment while I slap my
forehead, having realized that I've always been able to terminate
X with control-alt-backspace.) Netscape seems to respond to Alt-key
combinations - it might be that my fingers have been automatically
trying Windows combinations that don't have an X equivalent.

However, the one place where I definitely notice the Alt key
not working is in minicom. When X isn't running, I use various
Alt-key combinations with no problems, while under X the Alt key
seems to be ignored.... Wait a minute. I just tried it with
the modem hooked up and it seems to be echoing back characters
with the high-order bit set. OK, I'll just reconfigure minicom
to use control-A as the command specifier. There.

In the words of Emily Litella: "Never mind."

Thanks for the pointers to reference material. It should make
some good reading on a cold winter's night (which is about as
far as you can get from what I have right now, but what the heck).

At least that's one machine working properly. Now if I could just
get that OpenBSD box to stop thinking it has an second VGA card
lurking somewhere...

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